in reply to Inline C preliminaries

You could also grab it from here and put it in c:\windows (or another directory in your %PATH%).

This page also looks helpful, and you can try searching the Monastery for the error message as well.

The zeroeth step in writing a module is to make sure that there isn't already a decent one in CPAN. (-- Pod::Simple::Subclassing)

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom